<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Woo thanks for the tip. I will have to explore this.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">PS i have to say The Samsung Evo 850's have a 5 year warranty and seem to be working really well. I beat mine up and it is still trucking along.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Michael Butash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd second if the same size doing raid-1, I do this for every client I have anymore, especially when using SSD's that seem to drop like flies. I do this for laptops too when an option, I just make sure to buy laptops that can take two. More common it seems with the advent of msata or m2 drives.<br>
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I'm not a fan of splitting file systems between disparate disks (one or the other dies, there went half your os), unless you're just creating a dump drive for stuff like movies and such on a spinner.<br>
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Apple isn't exactly doing magic with their use of a ssd as a cache, as usual they just sell it as such and make it brainless for users to take advantage. Look up dm-cache, flashcache, or bcache for the same thing under linux, where dm-cache is built into newer kernels as part of lvm (maybe bcache too).<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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On 06/05/2016 11:34 PM, Stephen M wrote:<br>
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I'm trying to find documentation to tell me whats the best setup when<br>
partitioning 2 drives. Does it make since to have root and boot on<br>
one drive and then everything else on a 2nd drive?<br>
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